“Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.”

~ Anaïs Nin, "Henry and June"

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

~ Mark Twain

“Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.”

~ Bill Watterson
(cartoonist, Calvin & Hobbes)

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”

~ Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”

~ Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit